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I cringe when I read "the textbook definition of insanity is doing the exact same thing over and over again expecting different results".

This is obviously not the definition in any legitimate textbook or dictionary. When will smart people stop using this stupid cliche?
RE: the article not being "intellectually gratifying".

The situation sounds enormously distressing but the author's writing style isn't overwrought at all.

Even on a purely intellectual level, this is a devastating rebuttal of the point that "nobody dies from lack of health insurance". On the level of common decency, what is wrong with treating the people in the story as regular human beings with social ties, rather than some sort of people in the abstract?
Backbone does that , you can just use one part of backbone without the rest. want are router ? use the Router , want models? use the Model object ,want just sync ? use the Sync ect... backbone is not a MVC framework it is a collection of tools. Backbone doesnt force you into anything. That's why there are no controllers in Backbone ( Routers are not , routers are mediators ).
I used to work directly for Elop and thought he was/is an amazing leader. So while I'm biased, it's only because I know and have deep insight on him - I have nothing to gain.

This feels ironically similar to saying Obama failed because he didn't fix Bush's mess fast enough. Nokia was heading for a slow decline. Elop's strategy accelerated that decline short term in hopes they could turn around. It's a risk he and the board fully knew existed. It hasn't gone the way they want fast enough, which sucks, but they had the guts to give it a shot.

Android would have been the safe bet. I don't think any can argue that Nokia would be a much more valuable company today if they took on Samsung for Android leadership instead of going down an empty road with Windows Phone.

Instead, they swung for the fences with WP7. They missed. But, they have a few more chances to try to make it happen, and they're now effectively bankrolled by a company with much deeper pockets and motivation to win then if they stuck with Meego or Symbian.

I can't say I'm confident, but I am optimistic. I wouldn't count them out yet.
I'm not sure about the board in particular but the last round of layoffs notably included a bunch of upper managers as well.
I haven't touched Delphi in over 15 years now I think, maybe longer. But I used to be a pretty heavy user of it until Borland went Inprise.

Anyways, back when I was hot and heavy with it, I was writing audio and midi software, and I know most VST plugins from smaller to single vendors were done in Delphi. A lot of "shareware" audio apps were done with it (Fruity Loops, et al).
The spec on the website was awfully outdated, and enthusiasts were already following (and participating) its evolution on reddit, so that's not much of a loss.
I don't see how riting and workshops are "bootstrapped products". They won't be bringing nearly as much revenue in six months. A better title would be "How I'm financing my startup by selling books/courses" but I guess that doesn't fit the sales pitch so well.
This project is a Python module. It has to be executed at some point. Presumably, you'd generate the SQL locally by running manage.py sqlall, then get the SQL to your database in the appropriate manner. That's the same process the eventual product of this module would require.
I have a similar political mindset, but I'm afraid to apply the label "libertarian" to myself because it conjures images of Rand-following Objectivists who believe tax is theft and externalities don't exist. I wish there were another name for that quadrant of the political compass that had less connotations.
I know Python well but don't know Ruby. I'd like to start building serious Web apps and would love to hear why you like RoR more than any of the Python frameworks. I am under the impression that though there are more people who know Python than Ruby, yet more Web dev is done with RoR than all of Python combined, and I'm curious why. What is it that is so attractive about Rails? And with Rails having been the #1 reason for people to learn Ruby for years now, why is there no parallel Python on Rails?
We're talking about PyPy: http://pypy.org/

You seem to be talking about PyPi: http://pypi.python.org/
I actually do see articles in the above veins often, and they are very interesting and appreciated. They often get called off topic too, but the guidelines for HN clearly allow them and actually encourage them.
I disagree. Tugging at emotions and learning something aren't mutually exclusive. As someone who lives outside of the US, I had never envisioned this scenario before. It's jarring every time, and you never really wrap your head around the horrible possibilities.

Of all the problems I'm aware of with the US healthcare system, I never thought of someone refusing life-saving treatment because their kids would have to deal with the bill. Deferring treatment, sure. But I figured if you're dead, you're dead.

The fact that they chase your relatives for the bill after you die is really disgusting and something I hadn't thought about until this article painted that picture for me, and now I'm involved in multiple discussions about it.

I would say I found it intellectually gratifying.
We live in a vastly different, and still rapidly changing, world now. You see hundreds of years of progress, I see hundreds of years of overgrowth that's just not relevant.

I think patronage and reorganization of artistic groups is coming inherently. The only question is will we decide to stick them, and ourselves, with laws made for completely different technology.

Copyright in the US started at what, 14, 21 years? I forget offhand. Then you had to write a book, sell all rights to a publisher, deliver it to the publisher by horse then train then horse, have them print it, deliver it to sales people by train then wagon then horse, who delivered them to purchasers by train or wagon or horse. And throw some boats in there.

That was plenty enough copyright, our founders said. Other nations did not heavily disagree in copyright length. After that time, the work should go to the public good.

Remember, the public good is the only reason for copyright; to entice people to create for the public domain.

Today? You finish a work, upload it, and it's available for purchase from you, the creator. Nothing created in your lifetime will lapse into the public domain naturally.

This is not progress. This is perversion.
What's up with Stack Exchange's crazy password requirements? No repeating characters?
Specificity PSA: Don't use !important unless you absolutely, positively have to.

Recently I've run into WordPress themes where the author doesn't grasp the cascade and resorts to using !important. Widgets embedded on third-party sites are about the only good use I've seen.
This comment is an excellent example of why we don't want articles like this on HN. Quotes like this are pure garbage and have no place in any place of intellectual discourse:

how disgustingly backwards any non-universal healthcare system is

backwards ridiculousness under the thin veneer of "politics", much like those who try to take civil rights away

Regardless of how you feel about universal healthcare, it's not true that it's a settled issue for 99% of the world (even within the countries that have it), that it's remotely the same as taking away civil rights, or that there's no discussion to be had about the economics and policy implications of universal healthcare.

But like a lot of other issues, this is apparently one of those things that makes people on both sides get pants-on-head stupid and start insulting the other side and accusing them of pure malice. There are plenty of places for you to vent about this (/r/politics would love you), but HN isn't it.
Like Spam. Not really surprising. Undoubtedly someone is making money off of this. Definitely Facebook, at least for now.
I'll never understand that decision, unless there were freighters full of Microsoft cash to go along with it.
Parsing the text of models isn't the best way to get information about them. The _meta attribute of a model provides tons of information about a model, its fields, and how to deal with its database representation.

Parsers are neat in general, so if you had fun with it, more power to you.
It jives extremely well with a lot of traditional business management especially in hardware and telecoms oriented companies. It's a top down approach which satisfies the needs of the business development people first.

Nokia grew up in a world where the network operator was king and put complex and intrusive demands on the handset vendors, you still see this effect today.

If you look back further in his blog you'll see how he was perplexed that the original iPhone appeared so lacking in the bullet point features vs S60/Symbian.

Nokia employed a whole horde of business guys and product managers to slap these features on to OS so they could sell the platform, but simultaneously neglected the intrinsics that make an OS 'good'.

If you look at the history of Symbian, especially articles on The Register you'll see that this problem was actually well understood inside engineering. There were several points throughout the years where things could have been different. Elop rolled the dice, but cannibalized his own company at the same time. Steve Jobs 2.0 obviously didn't.
Perhaps of interest: BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones' investgiation into fake likes from earlier this year:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18813237
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Sometimes it's better to just die. Or so I've been told. And unless you haven't experienced the dark that some unfortunate people do, you nor I can really say otherwise, can we?
My libertarian cube mate calls me a progressive libertarian. Which I believe describes me literally, although the term has all the feel of that other marketing term, "compassionate conservatism." Still, I think it's pretty close, as a literal term.
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Neoliberal?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-classical_liberalism
There is no sense to this proposal. If it cost a telecom more to relay international traffic, they could charge their customers more for it to make up for the expensive peering costs. The telecoms must not be able to charge their customers more to relay traffic through expensive peers due to market forces -- which is why they want the government to be involved. It doesn't compensate the telecom for anything, it's just mandated jealousy.
This is happening because the promoted post is for a giveaway. A lot of incoming traffic can happen when you do a giveaway because freebie/contest blogs all cross-post it, and you can get a surprising amount of traffic if the prize is juicy enough.

If you clickthrough on the actual link from the post, it's to a contest entry form. After you provide your name, email, and ZIP code, it says "Want another chance to win? Just share this post on your Facebook Wall. Use the icon above! Don't forget to 'Like' on Facebook too!"

The official rules don't specifically require US citizenship or residency (most small businesses don't bother with real rules), though it does say that the prize has to be picked up in Tennessee.

The contest form: https://crosscreek.moontoast.com/estore/embed/1744?fbId=506a...
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There is a ton of spec info here:http://0x10cwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

I especially like this note: Room for 65,536 external hardware devices.
> Unfortunately, it used big endian, whereas the DCPU-16 specifications called for little endian. This led to a severe bug in the included drivers, causing a requested sleep of 0x0000 0000 0000 0001 years to last for 0x0001 0000 0000 0000 years.

Mh, looks like he is off by a factor of 256 :)
Please stop or leave. These kinds of name-calling and rude attacks on people that you disagree with are completely unbecoming and counterproductive to any rational discussion.
THIS. Click-through-rates, likes, and shares are going to vary dramatically from country to country. If you're running your ad to everyone in the world, the clicks will be SO much cheaper and you'll get served in countries where clicks are cheap and click-through-rates are high.
I've never used Zune, but iTunes has always bothered me. I get that people took to it because you could buy new music and get it to your phone from the same application.

But I've always considered the interface to be a cross between the worst web page on the web and the worst native app. What the hell were they thinking?
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In other words, this is some content from a different web site, which we're re-publishing here because we can. I don't get it, what would be the idea of this, except for "content is good"? That people who might be interested in questions like this don't read the relevant SE sites, so they "need" Ars to step in and re-publish it? It's weirding me out.
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yes, writing efficient programs is different in different languages.

"- Don't write Java (or C++, or Javascript, ...) in Python." and then you don't need to search for workarounds.
Marco of Instapaper had most of one of his recent podcasts on this subject. As a non-US listener I was surprised at the cost. It is jaw droppingly expensive to get health insurance. Surely the inefficiency in the system alone is a strong argument for almost any other system? The years lived per dollar spent graphs usually get busted out about now.
If you dont think the article is appropriate because of its 1) non technical nature, 2) political nature or 3) some other reason then:

1) Don't upvote it.

2) Don't comment on it.

3) Don't read the comments on it, because you clearly wont be able to hold yourself back from responding.

These simple guidelines will help you in many circumstances, and can be summarized with: dont feed trolls

(come on? health care debate? again? this is flame bait)
Creditors can't go after the spouse. They can go to the executors of the will and try to get money from the estate.
It's true, but the _meta way is not convenient for my use case. I am parsing uploaded python script (django model).
Libertarians and socialists agree that having employers provide health insurance is a staggeringly idiotic system. Libertarians would replace it with individual policies, and socialists would replace it with single payer. I favor the former (with subsidies for people who can't afford it due to poverty or preexisting conditions), but either would be much better than what we have now.

Unfortunately the average voter wants both "free" healthcare, and doesn't want the government running it, so every employer ends up being an insurance broker as well.
The DCPU isn't byte-addressable - all memory addresses refer to 16-bit words. Endianness mixups would result in swapping 16-bit words, not 8-bit bytes.
The future generation will not see most of the stars in the universe due to accelerated expansion in the universe. The distant galaxies will move faster and faster away from us until their light has red-shifted to be dimmer than the CMB. We will be alone with our Milky Way, may be with some others nearby in the super cluster.
I was impressed by the crowd-sourced annotation.
Also recall the company that estimated that 80% of its clicks are coming from bots (based on disabled Javascript).

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/startup-claims-80-of-its-fa...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4312731

(The original link from the HN submission is unfortunately gone)
I don't have rational discussions about settled issues such as the above, much like my example topics. Just like if someone asked me "Why do blacks have all these rights?" I just simply won't entertain the thought long enough to form an argument, I'm just going to write you off.

I don't see any name calling, unless you consider "American", "Republican" or "Libertarian" to be insults. My reply had a snide tone, however that was completely intentional and I stand by it. If you feel it's a negative contribution to the community overall then you're more than welcome to to downvote me and the discussion will naturally die out.

However I'm not going to "stop or leave" because of your melodramatic plea.
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The article is against the absurd health system the US is running. A business idea to put debt collectors in check is not even a bandaid for this problem. There are very legitimate ways people are being screwed in this country. The title is literal and true; it should be very easy to spot how screwed things are when "Suicide in Cheaper"
Man, isn't that just how it goes...
Woody Allen did the same. He took a lot of flack for it, but people still watch his movies.
Let the government do all the nice things it must naturally do for society, and you will find youself in Gulag, where everyone has a job, and housing, education, entertainment and healthcare are all free and equal for everyone.
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it isn't without risk either. as a small company, your insurer can drop you at any time if you start to get too expensive. though this is wildly illegal, if you confront them about it, they know you're a small company with razor thin margins and even if you win a multi-year lawsuit with them, you'll need other insurance in the meantime. so, they say "yeah well we'll see you court", and leave you with 1.5 weeks to get a new insurance policy for your employees...
I find it interesting that; "He worked at Microsoft from 1994 to 2003, mostly on Internet Explorer 1.0 to 5.0 (not 6)" ...
Obamacare is basically the system that you say you favor.
An excellent example of how the government can help those in need, without taking over the entire industry. I've yet to see a reasonable explanation of why something similar couldn't work with health care.
I've been thinking about trying one of the mentioned courses because I am trying to transition from side projects just to scratch an itch to services that people would actually use. So figured that learning from the experience of people who've done it before (Amy, Patrick, Brennan...) would cut down on the trial and error phase.

But how would I shake the feeling that these exist as part of the marketing scheme that the entrepreneurs engage in. These courses are not exactly cheap, but you know... "How do you make $10,000 selling an ebook online? Write an ebook that promises to teach people how to make $10,000 selling an ebook online"
Yeah, it's certainly like that in other countries with universal healthcare, although their state media does a good job covering up the fact they've enslaved the population. /s
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I'm just going to write you off.

No, you're apparently going to just hurl insults, which does nothing but entrench both sides. Thank goodness that someone had the foresight to make a rational argument for civil rights at some point, or we'd still be contending with that issue as well. Hearts and minds, and you're doing nothing for either.
tried to contact you through the website and it displays both things:

Email successfully send and Could not send the email please contact admin ;)

You may want to correct that while you are on HN
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"Set the bar so low, no one cares if you succeed" - Homer Simpson

Something like Google contacts, or Gmail if you wanna push your luck, would be more appropriate.
Are you confusing 'bootstrapped products' with some other concept like 'passive income'? Amount of revenue six months out doesn't have anything to do with whether something's bootstrapped.
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It's political but I don't feel everything like this should be left to "other sites". It reminds me about someone complaining that all too often Silicon Valley and techies at large only tend to focus on "bread and circus" projects. Articles like this remind me to at least think about "Is there any way I can build something to help make something like this better or cheaper?" Can anyone of us fix stuff like this with tech?
"I concluded that silent mind thing is an analogy"

Thanks for the comment, I can definitely concur that stopping the mind is not easy.

When I started running, I would have told you that for me, running a 5 minute mile was probably impossible. After training a bit, I was able to achieve it consistently.
But a key thing to keep in mind, is that I had a coach and other teammates to train with. This helped me believe I could reach goal and gave me the tools to do so.

I think you can probably get the analogy here.
I don't understand how you can run your parser if you can't run arbitrary Python code.
Just to be clear here, distance doesn't affect brightness; velocity does.
a very broad intuition is that less entropy in the input, more predictability in executing algorithms on that input, more regularities to exploit
Notch does everything in Java. Realistically, for developing a heavily simulated real-time 3D game like this or Minecraft, how many options does he have? Maybe C++, maybe C#, but that's about it.

Everything else is either too slow or doesn't have the up-to-date gamedev ecosystem.
Even better, flag it.
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You must also consider that most people do not have the kind of talent for writing that you and patio11 possess. Hats off to you guys for pulling it off and showing the way and inspiring other people. For most normal folk, it will take years of effort to reach this level in writing skills where they can build an audience on that strength.

On a slightly different note, there are SAAS products like SalesForce, Quickbooks and the lot that are going to get the market by the brute force of their marketing budget. On the other extreme are people like you and patio11 and 37signals who take the effort to nurture an audience and generally pro-bootstrap. I think both strategies should work if executed well.
i just moved to the us, and I'm really wondering where on earth you can find more expensive service than here.
Get Seth Godin in your office in person...
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"But it's not because no one will take them."

The research doesn't really support this. People without insurance are much more likely to die in the E.R. once they get there, even after controlling for relevant health factors.
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It's good software engineering.

The reasonable case for multi-person editing of a document is several people at the max editing the document concurrently.

Having thousands of people doing that is not a real-life scenario.

It's better to protect yourself from extremes like that by disabling editing functionality in that case than try to engineer a system that actually allows thousands of people editing a document concurrently (because it would be very expensive in engineering time and especially testing time).

There's literally no business case to be made for supporting thousands of concurrent edits - no one actually needs that functionality.
We will live in a Utopia where no one has to work.

Hey, I can dream can't I?
So the Russians are saying that they themselves had to defuse another crisis, and thank goodness, because that Castro was a crazy man? Not impressed...

On an unrelated note, I'm glad the author got the Defcon scale right. Although it's really usually just Hollywood that gets it wrong.